The subjects he decided to portray are well know in their own specific environment but can slip away from the mainstream culture. The images do not describe the person – the body in fact isn’t represented – but historical and cultural elements which make the personalities “mappable” in their own historical era. In order to reconstruct the subject of the drawing the elements made available and visible – costume, uniform, hair style, wig – are the starting point for a search requiring more than one point of view.